{"id":439836,"date":"2026-01-27T03:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439836\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:15:09","slug":"charles-leclerc-receives-youtube-plaque-after-reaching-huge-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/439836\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc receives YouTube plaque after reaching huge milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/charles-leclerc\/109611\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Charles Leclerc<\/a> has reached a milestone away from Formula 1 after his personal YouTube channel surpassed 1 million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/ferrari\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ferrari<\/a> F1 driver has now reached a total of 1.47 million subscribers on his channel, where he shares behind-the-scenes looks at race weekends, his piano music, what he gets up to during the winter and summer breaks, and insights into his personal brands, such as CL 16.<\/p>\n<p>Google and YouTube COM Dan Oros shared a photo with Leclerc on Instagram, where the Monegasque driver held a 1 million-subscriber gold plaque.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leclerc&#8217;s most popular video on his YouTube channel was a day in the life vlog titled &#8216;Charles Leclerc: 24 Hours in Monaco (Day in the Life)&#8217;, which amassed an incredible 10 million views. This is followed by a video of his joining a 48-hour training mission with the French Air and Space Force, which boasts 3.6 million views, and a video of the behind-the-scenes of his home race victory at the Monaco Grand Prix in 2024, which has 3.4 million views.<\/p>\n<p>His popularity on YouTube is mirrored across other social media platforms, with 22.4 million followers on Instagram, 4.6 million on TikTok and 3.6 million on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This comes as Leclerc prepares for the 2026 F1 season, which welcomes a new set of regulations to the championship. Ferrari unveiled its 2026 challenger, the SF-26, on Friday 23 January. &#8220;The first day of a new era. Next stop is Barcelona for the first official tests of the season,&#8221; Leclerc wrote on Instagram in a post from the launch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Maranello outfit will now head to Barcelona for private testing next week ahead of two further testing blocks on 11-13 February and 18-20 February. The 2026 season will kick off with the Australian Grand Prix on 6-8 March.<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc has reached a milestone away from Formula 1 after his personal YouTube channel surpassed 1 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,13275,228868,817,826,813,816,85,1511],"class_list":["post-439836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charles-leclerc","tag-charles-leclerc-receives-youtube-plaque-after-reaching-huge-milestone","tag-f1","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-trendingteam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}